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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 3, 2012 the first presidential debate in Denver:
"We’re now spending 42 percent of our economy on government."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2012 the first presidential debate:
Romney "would turn Medicare into a voucher program."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 30, 2012 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Says President Barack Obama "already passed all these Obamacare taxes. About a dozen of them hit middle-income taxpayers."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
"Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last 50 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2012
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on September 10, 2012 a campaign commercial:
Says Illinois Democrat David Gill "would end Medicare."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2012 an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes":
"Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of" President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession.
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2012
Government is Not God PAC
Government is Not God PAC
stated on September 23, 2012 a newspaper advertisement:
"Barack Hussein Obama will ... force Christian schools to hire non-Christian teachers."
False
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 21, 2012 a Spanish-language television ad:
College tuition "costs have risen by 25 percent under the Democrats."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on September 19, 2012 a campaign ad:
"Eight million Americans have dropped out of the work force since (Barack) Obama became president. ... The real unemployment rate is 19 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 19, 2012 remarks in Atlanta:
"Redistribution" has "never been a characteristic of America."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 17, 2012 a surreptitiously recorded speech to donors at a fundraiser:
The "48, 49 percent" that supports President Barack Obama are "people who pay no income tax."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 17, 2012 a private campaign fundraiser:
"Fifty percent of kids coming out of school can't get a job."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2012 a campaign commercial:
Says he "will protect your guaranteed benefits" in Medicare while "Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 28, 2012 a chain email:
On new dollar coins, "'In God We Trust' is gone!"
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 8, 2012 a speech in Seminole, Fla.:
"We've doubled our use of renewable energy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"I've cut taxes for ... middle-class families, small businesses."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2012 his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on September 6, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, "Republicans stood on the sidelines"
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2012
Bob King
Bob King
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs."
True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"In the last 29 months, our economy has produced about 4.5 million private-sector jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012
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